Walt Disney (1901-1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, and film producer who co-founded The Walt Disney Company. Renowned for creating iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, Disney revolutionized animation with the first feature-length animated film, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” (1937). Beyond animation, he expanded into filmmaking with classics such as “Cinderella” and “The Lion King.” Disney’s visionary contributions extended to theme parks, with the opening of Disneyland in 1955, followed by Disney World and Disneyland Paris. His enduring legacy includes a profound impact on entertainment, shaping popular culture through a vast array of Disney products and theme park experiences. Walt Disney’s innovative spirit and creativity continue to influence the entertainment industry globally.
Walt Disney Quotes
1. “If you can dream it, you can do it.”
— Walt Disney
2. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”
— Walt Disney
3. “First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare.”
— Walt Disney
4. “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”
— Walt Disney
5. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.”
— Walt Disney
6. “Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.”
— Walt Disney
7. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
— Walt Disney
8. “Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.”
— Walt Disney
9. “Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.”
— Walt Disney
10. “Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”
— Walt Disney
11. “Progress is impossible without change.”
— Walt Disney
12. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
— Walt Disney
13. “When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.”
— Walt Disney
14. “Keep Moving Forward.”
— Walt Disney
15. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
— Walt Disney
16. “That’s the real trouble with the world. Too many people grow up.”
— Walt Disney
17. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”
— Walt Disney
18. “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
— Walt Disney
19. “Have confidence in your ability to do it right, and work hard to do the best possible job.”
— Walt Disney
20. “A man should never neglect his family for business.”
— Walt Disney
21. “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.”
— Walt Disney
22. “Worry is a waste of imagination.”
— Walt Disney
23. “The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.”
— Walt Disney
24. “Believe in your dreams, no matter how impossible they seem.”
— Walt Disney
25. “Goodbye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.”
— Walt Disney
26. “To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.”
— Walt Disney
27. “Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.”
— Walt Disney
28. “Ideas come from curiosity.”
— Walt Disney
29. “After the rain, the sun will reappear. There is life. After the pain, the joy will still be here.”
— Walt Disney
30. “Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.”
— Walt Disney
31. “There is no magic in magic, it’s all in the details.”
— Walt Disney
32. “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”
— Walt Disney
33. “If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.”
— Walt Disney
34. “All of our dreams can come true.”
— Walt Disney
35. “Just make sure you never do less than your best.”
— Walt Disney
36. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
— Walt Disney
37. “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
— Walt Disney
38. “Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.”
— Walt Disney
39. “If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.”
— Walt Disney
40. “Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
— Walt Disney
41. “To be successful you must be unique, you must be so different that if people want what you have, they must come to you to get it.”
— Walt Disney
42. “I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.”
— Walt Disney
43. “We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
— Walt Disney
44. “Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”
— Walt Disney
45. “Any dream is possible if you have courage.”
— Walt Disney
46. “Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.”
— Walt Disney
47. “You must not let anyone define your limits because of where you come from. Your only limit is your soul.”
— Walt Disney
48. “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”
— Walt Disney
49. “Faith. Trust. and Pixie Dust.”
— Walt Disney
50. “Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.”
— Walt Disney
51. “A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.”
— Walt Disney
52. “Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”
— Walt Disney
53. “Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.”
— Walt Disney
54. “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
— Walt Disney
55. “I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”
— Walt Disney
56. “Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.”
— Walt Disney
57. “Your talent makes you who you are. You should be proud of it.”
— Walt Disney
58. “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”
— Walt Disney
59. “Just remember, it all started with a mouse.”
— Walt Disney
60. “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”
— Walt Disney
61. “Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”
— Walt Disney
62. “Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.”
— Walt Disney
63. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”
— Walt Disney
64. “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”
— Walt Disney
65. “If we didn’t have deadlines, we’d stagnate.”
— Walt Disney
66. “The wonders of nature are endless…”
— Walt Disney
67. “Too many people grow up. That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won’t do that.”
— Walt Disney
68. “Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.”
— Walt Disney
69. “You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”
— Walt Disney
70. “Who says that my dreams have to just stay my dreams?”
— Walt Disney
71. “That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.”
— Walt Disney
72. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment.”
— Walt Disney
73. “It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.”
— Walt Disney
74. “If watching is all you’re going to do, then you’re going to watch your life go by without you.”
— Walt Disney
75. “The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.”
— Walt Disney
76. “I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.”
— Walt Disney
77. “I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.”
— Walt Disney
78. “People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.”
— Walt Disney
79. “My persistence is the measure of the belief I have in myself.”
— Walt Disney
80. “Fear too often spells failure.”
— Walt Disney
81. “Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.”
— Walt Disney
82. “Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”
— Walt Disney
83. “When I’m dead I don’t want a funeral. I want people to remember me alive.”
— Walt Disney
84. “I am a patient listener, but opinionated to the point of stubbornness when my mind is made up.”
— Walt Disney
85. “I believe in being an innovator.”
— Walt Disney
86. “Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.”
— Walt Disney
87. “In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.”
— Walt Disney
88. “People spend money when and where they feel good.”
— Walt Disney
89. “I just needed to get out on my own, live my own life. And I did, and it’s great.”
— Walt Disney
90. “You’re flying Buzz! No Woody we’re falling in style!”
— Walt Disney
91. “Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true.”
— Walt Disney
92. “I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”
— Walt Disney
93. “Don’t tell me about the problems – I make the problems.”
— Walt Disney
94. “I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.”
— Walt Disney
95. “Even miracles take a little time.”
— Walt Disney
96. “Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.”
— Walt Disney
97. “My business is making people, especially children, happy.”
— Walt Disney
98. “Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.”
— Walt Disney
99. “I’m just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”
— Walt Disney
100. “No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.”
— Walt Disney
101. “Recession doesn’t deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.”
— Walt Disney
102. “My imagination creates my reality.”
— Walt Disney
103. “A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.”
— Walt Disney
104. “All right. I’m corny. But I think there’s just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.”
— Walt Disney
105. “Whether you say you can’t or you can, you’re right.”
— Walt Disney
106. “You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”
— Walt Disney
107. “Do what you do so well – and so uniquely – that people can’t resist telling others about you.”
— Walt Disney
108. “The most important thing is family.”
— Walt Disney
109. “Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.”
— Walt Disney
110. “A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.”
— Walt Disney
111. “Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.”
— Walt Disney
112. “Fantasy and reality often overlap.”
— Walt Disney
113. “But they say if you dream a thing more than once, it’s sure to come true.”
— Walt Disney
114. “Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.”
— Walt Disney
115. “Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.”
— Walt Disney
116. “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.”
— Walt Disney
117. “When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it’s because he’s so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.”
— Walt Disney
118. “Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things.”
— Walt Disney
119. “Laughter is no enemy to learning.”
— Walt Disney
120. “The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”
— Walt Disney
121. “A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.”
— Walt Disney
122. “Money doesn’t excite me – my ideas excite me.”
— Walt Disney
123. “Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”
— Walt Disney
124. “Today, we are shapers of the world of tomorrow. That is plain truth. There is no way we can duck the responsibility, and there is no reason why we should.”
— Walt Disney
125. “Adults are only kids grown up.”
— Walt Disney
126. “Always, as you travel, assimilate the sounds and sights of the world.”
— Walt Disney
127. “I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.”
— Walt Disney
128. “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”
— Walt Disney
129. “Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.”
— Walt Disney
130. “Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”
— Walt Disney
131. “I don’t know if it’s art, but I know I like it.”
— Walt Disney
132. “I think of a child’s mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”
— Walt Disney
133. “Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.”
— Walt Disney
134. “I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.”
— Walt Disney
135. “A good concert, if you’re kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It’s sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.”
— Walt Disney
136. “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long.”
— Walt Disney
137. “Mickey Mouse is, to me, a symbol of independence. He was a means to an end.”
— Walt Disney
138. “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.”
— Walt Disney
139. “I’m doing this because I want to do it better.”
— Walt Disney
140. “She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn’t come along, she went over to the palace and got him.”
— Walt Disney
141. “Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly.”
— Walt Disney
142. “Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.”
— Walt Disney
143. “Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.”
— Walt Disney
144. “I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person’s whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.”
— Walt Disney
145. “Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.”
— Walt Disney
146. “Laughter is America’s most important export.”
— Walt Disney
147. “Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.”
— Walt Disney
148. “When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.”
— Walt Disney
149. “It is good to have a failure while you’re young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you’ve lived through the worst, you’re never quite as vulnerable afterward.”
— Walt Disney
150. “For every laugh, there should be a tear.”
— Walt Disney
